Paraguay
Open on the live globe ↗Brief · 17 September 2026
A major wildfire is burning in Paraguay, first tracked on 16 September 2026 and carrying a red alert level. The event was newly identified in the past week, with a total fire radiative power of 7,030 MW recorded across multiple satellite passes.
Wildfire A red-level wildfire in Paraguay has shown a total fire radiative power of 7,030 MW and a peak FRP of 212 MW, with 200 thermal detections across 13 satellite passes and burning detected over a 19-hour span.
- A wildfire in Paraguay, first tracked on 16 September 2026, is new and still active.
Summarised from Hazardly's tracked events for the seven days to 17 September 2026 · no external sources. Generated by claude-sonnet-5 at 17 Sept, 20:42 UTC, not reviewed by a person before publication. Outbreak lines name the disease and country only; WHO's bulletin text is on each outbreak's event page.
Events · last 7 days · 1
- WildfireWildfire — ParaguayNew16 Sept, 18:01 UTC
Seven days of source changes
Revisions · 1 event also first tracked this week
No revisions this week — earthquakes are logged once and never revised; storms, fires, volcanoes and outbreaks record every source update.
Countries · by trend
12| Country | Active | Worst | Trend | Changed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 65 | RED | steady9 escalating · 21 steady · 35 new | 2h ago |
| Bolivia | 8 | RED | steady3 steady · 4 new | 2h ago |
| Paraguay | 1 | RED | new1 new | 2d ago |
| Argentina | 2 | ORANGE | new1 new | 16h ago |
| Chile | 1 | GREEN | new | 8h ago |
| Peru | 2 | GREEN | new2 new | 23h ago |
| Venezuela | 1 | GREEN | new1 new | 4d ago |
| Suriname | 1 | GREEN | new1 new | 4d ago |
| Panama | 1 | GREEN | new1 new | 4d ago |
| Guyana | 1 | GREEN | new1 new | 4d ago |
| Costa Rica | 1 | GREEN | new1 new | 4d ago |
| Colombia | 1 | GREEN | new1 new | 4d ago |
Trend compares each event’s own source-reported measure across Hazardly’s last two ingests. It measures reported change, not impact: a fire whose satellite coverage improved overnight can read as escalating, and a storm can weaken while its damage is still unfolding.
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